wreakful

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Call the creatures Whose naked natures live in all the spite Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks, To the conflicting elements expos'd, Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee; O! thou shalt find— TIMON.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William

Call the creatures,      Whose naked natures live in all the spight      Of wreakful heav'n, whose bare unhoused trunks,      To the conflicting elements expos'd,      Answer mere nature, bid them flatter thee.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William

Take heed, do not so near his rays aspire; Lest, for thy pride, inflamed with wreakful ire, It burn thy wings, as it hath burnèd me.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote